Bottle-stopper



No. 607,285. Patented July I2, |898.

L. A. scHoLz. l BOTTLE STOPPER.

(Application filed Nov. 1, 1897.) (No Model.)

PATENT Irrricn.

LOUIS A. SCI'IOLZ, F ROANOKE, VIRGINIA.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 607,285, dated July 12,1898.

Application iiled November 1, 1897. Serial No. 657,081. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS A. SCHOLZ, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Roanoke, in the county of Roanoke and State of Virginia,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in BottleStoppers; andI do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, which will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

,My invention relates to Stoppers for bottles containing carbonated oreffervescing beverages, such as apollinaris water, ginger-ale,champagne, rbc.; and its object is to provide an improved constructionof the same by which the contents may be drawn by the glass or in smallquantities without the escape of gas, as is the case where the ordinaryremovable stopper is used.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination ofparts, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a stopperconstructed in accordance with my invention, showing the same with theflexible or elastic cork removed. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectionalview of the device complete before the cork is tightened.` Fig. 3 is asectional elevation showing the stopper applied to a bottle and the corktightened.

In the said drawings the reference-numeral l designates a tube of metalor other suitable material, the inner end of which is made flaring, asseen at 2. This tube, intermediate its ends, is formed withscrew-threads 3 and at the upper end is provided with a small spigot 4,having a stop-cock 5. Engaging with the said screw-threads is a nut 6,which when the device is in use bears upon a disk or washer 7, looselymounted on the said tube, so as to be movable up and down thereon. Alsomounted on said tube is a rubber or other iiexible or elastic cork 8,having its lower end recessed so as to correspond with the flaring endof the tube.

The manner of using the device is as follows: The ordinary stopperorcork of a bottle containing the carbonated or effervescing beverage isremoved and my improved stopper quickly inserted in the mouth of thebottle. This can be readily accomplished with but an inappreciable lossof the gas, as the rubber cork is of a diameter to easily enter thebottle-mouth. The nut 6 is then turned, compressing the rubber corkbetween the flaring end of the tube and the loose washer and causing itsperiphery to bulge outward so as to bear against the inner side of theneck of the bottle, making a perfectly gas and liquid tight joint.` Thecontents may now be drawn by the glass or other quantity by turning thestop-cock of the spigot until the bottle is emptied without losing thegas, so that the lastl glass in the bottle will be as perfectlycarbonated as the first. lVhen the spigot is closed, the bottle will behermetically sealed, so as to prevent the escape of any of the contents,so that thebeverage may be retained in the bottle indefinitely withoutdeteriorating or losing any of the effervescing qualities.

The flaring end of the tube forms a bearing for compressing the elasticcork, and when in use, as seen in Fig. 3, it abuts against the inner orlower end of the said cork and prevents the liquid in the bottle fromcoming in contact therewith.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim` is- As animproved article, a bottle-stopper consisting of the tube having aflaring or bellmouth lower or inner end, the screw-threads formedintermediate the ends, the spigot at the upper or outer end of saidtube, the nut engaging with said screw-threads, the circlilar washeradapted to rest on the top of va bottle and through which said tubeloosely passes, and the elastic cork through which said tube passes,formed with a recess in its lower end, corresponding withv the shape ofthe said flaring end of the tube, the construction being such that whenthe stopper is inserted in the bottle and expanded by turning the nut,it will be compressed between the flaring end of the tube and thewasher, so as to entirely iill the space therebetween, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereuntoaffixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.`

LOUIS A. SOHOLZ.

Witnesses:

S. B. PACE, P. P. MEADE.

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